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Deep neural network classifiers suffer from adversarial vulnerability: well-crafted, unnoticeable changes to the input data can affect the classifier decision. In this regard, the study of powerful adversarial attacks can help shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

We focus on the problem of black-box adversarial attacks, where the aim is to generate adversarial examples for deep learning models solely based on information limited to output label~(hard label) to a queried data input. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Satya Narayan Shukla , Anit Kumar Sahu , Devin Willmott , J. Zico Kolter

Adversarial examples are a pervasive phenomenon of machine learning models where seemingly imperceptible perturbations to the input lead to misclassifications for otherwise statistically accurate models. We propose a geometric framework,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Marc Khoury , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

We propose a new, simple framework for crafting adversarial examples for black box attacks. The idea is to simulate the substitution model with a non-trainable model compounded of just one layer of handcrafted convolutional kernels and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Petr Dvořáček , Petr Hurtik , Petra Števuliáková

Most existing works of adversarial samples focus on attacking image recognition models, while little attention is paid to the image retrieval task. In this paper, we identify two inherent challenges in applying prevailing image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Yi Yang , Fei Wu

Generating adversarial examples for natural language is hard, as natural language consists of discrete symbols, and examples are often of variable lengths. In this paper, we propose a geometry-inspired attack for generating natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhao Meng , Roger Wattenhofer

Adversarial images aim to change a target model's decision by minimally perturbing a target image. In the black-box setting, the absence of gradient information often renders this search problem costly in terms of query complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Chuan Guo , Jared S. Frank , Kilian Q. Weinberger

This work studies sparse adversarial perturbations, including both unstructured and structured ones. We propose a framework based on a white-box PGD-like attack method named Sparse-PGD to effectively and efficiently generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xuyang Zhong , Chen Liu

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

Deep learning models are used in safety-critical tasks such as automated driving and face recognition. However, small perturbations in the model input can significantly change the predictions. Adversarial attacks are used to identify small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Issa Oe , Keiichiro Yamamura , Hiroki Ishikura , Ryo Hamahira , Katsuki Fujisawa

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the attacker is restricted solely to query access. Existing black-box approaches to generating adversarial examples typically require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Moustafa Alzantot , Yash Sharma , Supriyo Chakraborty , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Mani Srivastava

Black-box attacks usually face two problems: poor transferability and the inability to evade the adversarial defense. To overcome these shortcomings, we create an original approach to generate adversarial examples by smoothing the linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Hui Xia , Rui Zhang , Shuliang Jiang , Zi Kang

Recent research has found that neural networks are vulnerable to several types of adversarial attacks, where the input samples are modified in such a way that the model produces a wrong prediction that misclassifies the adversarial sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Constructing adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks is an important direction of research. Crafting image-dependent adversarial perturbations using white-box feedback has hitherto been the norm for such adversarial attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Arka Ghosh , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Shounak Datta , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi , Asit Kr. Das

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box adversarial attacks can fool neural networks with small adversarial perturbations, especially for large size images. However, keeping successful adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yongwei Wang , Mingquan Feng , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang , Lanjun Wang

Adversarial samples are perturbed inputs crafted to mislead the machine learning systems. A training mechanism, called adversarial training, which presents adversarial samples along with clean samples has been introduced to learn robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Vivek B. S. , Konda Reddy Mopuri , R. Venkatesh Babu

The vulnerability of the high-performance machine learning models implies a security risk in applications with real-world consequences. Research on adversarial attacks is beneficial in guiding the development of machine learning models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yiran Huang , Yexu Zhou , Michael Hefenbrock , Till Riedel , Likun Fang , Michael Beigl

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can fool them by adding minuscule perturbations to the input images. The robustness of existing defenses suffers greatly under white-box attack settings, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aamir Mustafa , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Roland Goecke , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Machine learning classifiers are critically prone to evasion attacks. Adversarial examples are slightly modified inputs that are then misclassified, while remaining perceptively close to their originals. Last couple of years have witnessed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Thibault Maho , Teddy Furon , Erwan Le Merrer

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Yujiu Yang